Utopías urbanas

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Edición con prólogo explicativo y texto anotado de uno de los autores más curiosos y menos estudiados del siglo xvi en los tiempos modernos. Se trata de un texto fundamental en relación con la «Celestina».

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Como su título indica, esta obra recoge, a veces reelaborados, estudios que el profesor Lope Blanch ha dedicado a nuestra lingüística del Siglo de Oro. Algunos son textos conocidos y de fácil localización, otros no tanto. Contenido: La Lingüística española del Siglo de Oro. Notas sobre los estudios gramaticales en la España del Renacimiento.- El «Diálogo de la lengua» de Juan de Valdés.- Dos principios gramaticales de Villalón.- El «Vocabulario de las dos lenguas Toscana y Castellana» de Cristóbal de las Casas.- La «Gramática española» de Jerónimo de Texeda.- Bello y el...